Nakae Chomin 1847 – 1901
Nakae Chomin (1847 – 1901) was a Japanese philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Political Philosophy.
Nakae Chomin was a Japanese journalist, translator, and political philosopher and one of the principal voices of the Meiji-period Freedom and People's Rights movement. After studies in France in the early 1870s, he returned to Japan as a passionate advocate of Rousseauean popular sovereignty and produced an admired Japanese translation of Rousseau's Social Contract that gave him the lasting nickname of the Rousseau of the Orient. His Discourse on Three Drunkards on Government, the Draft of a Discourse, and his many newspaper essays argued for constitutional limits on imperial power, the rights of citizens, and the careful integration of Western political thought with Japanese tradition. He died of throat cancer at fifty-four.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Japanese
- Era
- Modern
- Movements
- Political Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Nakae Chomin:
“Liberty is the inborn right of every human being, not a gift of any government.”
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Attributed to Nakae Chomin:
“The strength of a nation lies in the rights of its citizens.”
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Attributed to Nakae Chomin:
“Japan must learn from the West but live as Japan.”
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Attributed to Nakae Chomin:
“True civilization is a civilization of free people.”
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Attributed to Nakae Chomin:
“The pen of the journalist is the conscience of the public.”
Nakae Chomin by topic
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- Nakae Chomin was a Japanese journalist, translator, and political philosopher and one of the principal voices of the Meiji-period Freedom and People's Rights movement.
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